Letter 3,41 - to Felix, bishop of Siponto. June 593
"Concern over our interests disturbs us greatly. Accordingly with God's assistance, we must provide the defense of ecclesiastical affairs, in such a way that no loss might result from neglect in these matters.
Therefore your Fraternity, together with Boniface and with Pantaleo also, the bearer of this letter, both notaries of our see, must take care to describe in detail the Church properties which are known to exist at the church of Siponto, each of them individually. Thus when a trustful inspection of the properties has been made, you three should compile an inventory containing the vessels of the churches, as well as their silver usual, and whatever else there is. Nor should your Fraternity try to present any delay or excuse over this."
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 262.
About Me & About the Project
- Arnold Smeets
- BIO - I am a theologian. Radio broadcaster at Dutch Public Broadcast Organisation KRO-NCRV and Senior Research Fellow at CPO (Centre for Patristic Studies), the Netherlands. In 2007 I took my degree cum laude at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Tilburg on a semiotic analysis of three letters of Pope Gregory the Great (Ad Leandrum, concerning his own conversion, and Ep. xi,37 and Ep. xi,56, two instructions on the mission of the English). PROJECT - Every few days I'll blog a paragraph and twitter a line from one of Gregory the Great's Letters. Passages from the letters are quoted with kind permission of the publishers, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada.
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